Last month I wrote in because X was crashing at start up. Thanks to Ted Spradley and Jarmo Paavilainen I tracked down one culprit - not enough space in the root directory due to a core dump file. I pitched the file and got X going again.
About 10 days ago it happened again, even after following the (very valid) suggestions to minimize root use. What I found (finally) all via command line - 1. I used 'df' to discover that '/' was 100% full again 2. I used 'find -time -n' to locate all files that had been modified since X started working again. 3. I then used 'du' in the respective directories to find which files were memory hogs. 4. I found Netscape is located in the root directory. Its cache file grew every time I used it, in any account. the cache files had grown large enough to consume all space left in the '/' partition. 5. I removed all the cache files via the command line, freeing up enough space to allow X to start again. Now to remember to purge Netscape's cache files regularly and to shrink them to manageable size... Though it looks like I can relocate them anywhere... I hope this helps someone in the future Paul Sherman Biomedical Engineer VA Center for Engineering & Occupational Safety and Health (CEOSH) St. Louis, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
